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Highest Average SAT Score: Among All Schools (out of 230 schools) Sorted by range (alphabetically within range) * Indicates Boarding Grades Offered Boarding School School Type Grades* Average SAT Score 1.-10.  Concord Academy Co-Ed    9-12 >2000 1.-10.  Deerfield Academy Co-Ed    9-12, PG >2000 1.-10.  Groton School Co-Ed    8-12 >2000 1.-10.  Hotchkiss School Co-Ed    9-12, PG >2000 1.-10.  Middlesex School Co-Ed    9-12 >2000 1.-10.  Peddie School Co-Ed    9-12, PG >2000 1.-10.  Phillips Academy Andover Co-Ed    9-12, PG >2000 1.-10.  Phillips Exeter Academy Co-Ed    9-12, PG >2000 1.-10.  St. Paul's School Co-Ed    9-12 >2000 1.-10. Thomas Jefferson School Co-Ed    7-12, PG >2000

Highest Average SAT Score: Among All Schools (out of 230 schools) Sorted by range (alphabetically within range) * Indicates Boarding Grades Offered Boarding School School Type Grades* Average SAT Score 1.-10.  Concord AcademyCo-Ed   9-12>20001.-10.  Deerfield AcademyCo-Ed   9-12, PG>20001.-10.  Groton SchoolCo-Ed   8-12>20001.-10.  Hotchkiss SchoolCo-Ed   9-12, PG>20001.-10.  Middlesex SchoolCo-Ed   9-12>20001.-10.  Peddie SchoolCo-Ed   9-12, PG>20001.-10.  Phillips Academy AndoverCo-Ed   9-12, PG>20001.-10.  Phillips Exeter AcademyCo-Ed   9-12, PG>20001.-10.  St. Paul's SchoolCo-Ed   9-12>20001.-10. Thomas Jefferson SchoolCo-Ed   7-12, PG>200011.-23. The Athenian SchoolCo-Ed   9-121900-200011.-23. Cate SchoolCo-Ed   9-121900-200011.-23. Choate Rosemary HallCo-Ed   9-12, PG1900-200011.-23. The Hockaday SchoolAll-Girls   8-121900-200011.-23. Indian Springs SchoolCo-Ed   9-121900-200011.-23. Lawrenceville SchoolCo-Ed   9-12, PG1900-200011.-23. Loomis Chaffee SchoolCo-Ed   9-12, PG1900-200011.-23. Oregon Episcopal SchoolCo-Ed   9-121900-200011.-23. St. Andrew's School, DECo-Ed   9-121900-200011.-23. St. George's SchoolCo-Ed   9-121900-2000 Sorted by range (alphabetically within range) * Indicates Boarding Grades Offered Boarding School School Type Grades* Average SAT Score 11.-23. ht

During the 1800s the Rubenesque woman was part of the ideal female body image. Until the early 1900's, for a woman to have extra weight on her body and look voluptuous was a sign of good health and wealth.

In the early 1900's, our culture saw a shift from this plump, voluptuous female form to a thinner frame with less curves. The new female ideal of the 1920's was the thin, short haired flapper.

People started dieting and sports became popular pastimes as exercise began to be viewed as a healthy activity to enhance the body.

S.A.T. scores are valid, reliable and consistent over time for all groups. Differences in score levels point to the unfinished task of providing quality education for all. For the last 63 years, the S.A.T. has functioned as a guarantor of fairness to students of every background in college admissions. It has been a messenger of clear national standards of academic achievement that help to keep high school grades from ''inflating'' beyond reason. In a time of economic competition, when our future standing among nations depends on a highly educated work force, the S.A.T. is one of the only bulwarks of fair, high quality learning for all.

The S.A.T. measures the probability of success in college based on math and verbal skills

it has proved to be an accurate national test that measures developed ability in the basic math and verbal skills for college study, no matter where or how learned, that can be given in the same way anywhere, year after year, that is inexpensive, easy to administer and does not distort teaching or curriculum in high school.

Many teens don't realize the psychological or physical dangers behind reed-like bodies. Instead they uphold super-thin images as their ideal. "The media has a tremendous influence--impacting on girls to be thin," says Elaine Yudkovitz, a New York psychotherapist and specialist in eating disorders. The statistics are alarming: About one in 100 adolescent girls suffers from anorexia. The results can be deadly. Roughly 10 percent of anorexics die of medical complications from lack of food, or from suicide.

For years researchers have tied eating disorders to severe psychological problems. Now scientists have found a new link in the equation: brain chemistry.

have deficient amounts of serotonin, a brain chemical associated with moods and emotions, circulating in their brains.

The ideal body shape for women has become increasingly thinner over recent decades

Caucasian females exhibit more body image disturbance than other ethnic groups

However, other studies have found either no ethnic differences in body image disturbance (Cachelin, Striegel-Moore, & Elder, 1998), or that these minority groups actually reported greater body dissatisfaction compared to their Caucasian peers (Robinson et al., 1996).

The findings indicated that Asian American women and men were lighter, shorter, and smaller than Caucasian American women and men. Regardless of these differences, all groups evidenced similar levels of dissatisfaction with physical features related to body size, though women wanted to be smaller and men wanted to be either larger or smaller

r height and their eyes than were Caucasian Americans.

affect millions of individuals worldwide

While they have been more typically attributed to middle class, Caucasian, adolescent females, current research suggests that there is a similar prevalence of eating disorders and their symptoms, especially body dissatisfaction, among Asian American girls and women.

The media may be a significant influence on eating disorders through its impact on values, norms, and image standards accepted by modern society

Both society’s exposure to media and eating disorders have grown immensely over the past decade.

Hollywood displays an unrealistic standard of beauty

Dieting creates many dynamics that encourage eating disorders

dieting is considered "normal" and is encouraged in western culture. In fact, when someone attempts to lose weight through dieting and does not, she often considers herself a failure.

Those who diet moderately are five times more likely to develop eating disorders than those who don't diet. For those who diet "severely," the chances of an eating disorder are eighteen times greater.

Color psychology refers to investigating the effect of color on human behavior and feeling, distinct from phototherapy (the use of ultraviolet light to cure infantile jaundice).

A person not familiar with the cultural coding of red in North America could possible confuse the symbolism of red and mistake a red Valentine's day heart for a warning. Cross-cultural diversity is found in the symbolism of white, which historically has signified purity, virginity, or death (as in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. In North America it is the color worn at weddings. At certain periods in history it was the color worn at funerals in parts of Japan and China.

believing colors produced not only an effect on the mind, but that they acted specifically to "produce definite, specific states in the living organ.

out of 10 women will be dissatisfied with their reflection, and more than half may see a distorted image.

Why are women so much more self-critical than men? Because women are judged on their appearance more than men, and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.

It has been estimated that young women now see more images of outstandingly beautiful women in one day than our mothers saw throughout their entire adolescence.

The History of Cabernet Sauvignon is actually less than six hundred years old which makes it a relative newcomer to the world of wine grapes.

Hip Hop has become the dominant genre, black music has become onedimensional, stifling the balance and benefits of the others.

Most urban artists exercise no instrumental talent, so they are unable to bring raw melodies into existence. Instead, rap artists have convinced themselves that sampling beats and remixing is innovative.

Purists will argue that Solex's method isn't music--it's thievery. She didn't come up with the melody, didn't play any of the instruments, didn't sing a lick.

"You're stealing sounds, yes, but you can make it yourself--reverse it, stretch it. If you really copy a melody, that's more [like] thievery."

The experimental artist, however, is aware that the analysis of art has little to do with the act of creating it. That is, we cannot successfully incorporate new ideas into our work unless these ideas are generated out of our own process.

In fact, sampling is a much more serious offense than most people realize.

The mission of the SAT was to identify intellectual talent regardless of race, color, creed, money, or geography, and give that talent a chance to blossom.

SAT and the achievement tests measure different things.

The SAT measures students’ verbal reasoning, critical reading, and skills,” while the achievement tests “show colleges their mastery of specific subjects.”

The Family Foundation School is a college preparatory boarding school for teens at risk. Our high school serves grades 9 through 12, and a separate middle school serves grades 6, 7, and 8. We are registered with New York State Board of Regents and accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. We are a long-term program with a minimum stay of three semesters (18 months) and an average successful stay of two years. Our students have gotten into trouble at home, at school, and sometimes with the law. Most of our students are academic underachievers. Many have been diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder), depression, or drug or alcohol abuse. Behavioral disorders include self-mutilation (cutting), promiscuity, eating disorders, and compulsive use of computers through either pornography or fantasy games.  A desire to help teens unites our staff and every staff member, regardless of position, is directly involved with students during part of the work week. More than half our staff members are in recovery and regularly share their experience, strength and hope with the students.